Cane-mill.



8. E1 BROOKER. CANE MILL. APPUCATION FILED 0:0. 2. 91a.

Patented May 29, 1917.

SILAS E. BROOKER, OF LA GROSSE, FLORIDA.

. CANEeMILL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 29, 191 7.

Application filed-December 2, 1916. Serial 0. 134,735.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SILAS E. BROOKER, a citizen of the United States,resident of La Crosse, in'the county of Alachua and State of Florida,have made a certain new and useful Invention in Cane-Mills; and Ideclare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of thesame, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this and said loops exerting tension uponthe upspecification.

Figure 1 is a vention.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary section on the line 2-2 Fig. 1. v

The invention has relation to hand-operated mills, designed mainly forexpressing the juice from sugar cane, and it conslsts in the novelconstruction and combinations of parts, as hereinafter set forth.

1n the accompanying drawings, illustratin a s upporting frame, havingcentral uprights 3 and lateral extensions 4, 4, provided with downwardlyand inwardly inclined platforms 5, leading to the rollers of the mill.

These rollers 6, 6 are located one above the other, the upper rollerhaving endjournals 7 working in vertical slots 8 of said uprights, andthe lower roller having end journals 9, bearing in perforations 10 ofsaid uprights.

In order to provide for movement of the rollers with relation to eachother, to allow the cane to pass between the rollers and to cause therollers to exert a strong pressure upon the cane, to express the juice,horizon tal transverse straps 11, of spring metal, engage and workinvertical slots 12 of the uprights, said straps havingcentral-upwardly, arched portions 11, engaging the end jour perspectiveView of the inthe invention, the numeral 2 designates nals of theupperroller, and vertical U-form rods 13, of spring metal, engage at theirextending diverging'arms 15, located at the outside of saiduprights,'the upper free ends of said arms engaging end perforations 16of said transverse straps.

In this way, as the cane is passed through the rollers of the mill, thetransverse spring strapswill be bent, and the vertical U-form loops willhave the diverging branches thereof bent, the inherent spring of saidstraps oer roller, to press it toward the lower roller and thereby exertstrong pressure upon the the rollers. 1

The invention provides a simple and eficient han -0perated mill, thatanyone can afford to buy and operate in his home. Suitableoperatingcranks 7, 9, are provided for the rollers.

In a sugar cane mill, a frame provided with vertical slots and withperforations, a ro er ls of said cooperating roller and provided U-formloops at right angles to said straps,

engaging the perforations of said frame and having lateral arms engagingthe perforations of said straps.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature,

in presence of two witnesses.

' S. E. BROOKER.

Witnesses: L. J. KNIGHT,

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